{"id":906,"date":"2007-10-23T20:03:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T18:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/10\/23\/of-guests-and-ghosts\/"},"modified":"2022-04-25T16:16:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T14:16:45","slug":"of-guests-and-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/10\/of-guests-and-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Of guests and ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a rare occasion where you can identify &#8220;guests&#8221; and &#8220;ghosts&#8221; in a paper &#8211; a common practice. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is the most highly cited paper of a former collaborator<br \/>\n<a title=\"goeast1.png\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/10\/23\/of-guests-and-ghosts\/goeast1png\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-905\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/goeast1.png\" alt=\"goeast1.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you scroll down to the methods you will find the ghost<br \/>\n<a title=\"goeast3.png\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/10\/23\/of-guests-and-ghosts\/goeast3png\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-908\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/goeast3.png\" alt=\"goeast3.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s correct: I (M.W.) wrote the study plan and grant application together with S.D.. Furthermore, I prepared study materials and carried them to East Germany, supervised the examination, and back home I did the first data analysis. Who is F. D. M. ?<\/p>\n<p>We may therefore ask if any of these computer generated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laborjournal.de\/rubric\/ranking\/R04_05\/start.html\">impact ranking lists<\/a> really make sense, nay, nay.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 28.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a rare occasion where you can identify &#8220;guests&#8221; and &#8220;ghosts&#8221; in a paper &#8211; a common practice. &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 28.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1341,93,1342,96],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-ghosts","tag-grant_application","tag-guests","tag-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19938,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/19938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}